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  • Re: Report Writer

    From J Leslie Turriff@jlturriff@mail.com to comp.lang.cobol on Tue Sep 25 00:52:41 2018
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    Paul Richards wrote:

    I know that the COBOL RW is for producing printed reports. However is
    it possible to use RW to produce a report for screen display?

    Possibly, but would it not be better to use the SCREEN SECTION,
    etc?
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    JLT
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  • From pete dashwood@dashwood@enternet.co.nz to comp.lang.cobol on Mon Oct 1 16:00:53 2018
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On 25/09/2018 5:52 PM, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
    Paul Richards wrote:

    I know that the COBOL RW is for producing printed reports. However is
    it possible to use RW to produce a report for screen display?

    Possibly, but would it not be better to use the SCREEN SECTION,
    etc?

    This post made me smile; it's like 2 bald men fighting for a comb...

    Two obsolete facilities in an obsolete language... which should be used
    to display results?

    in this century the problem of how best to display stuff has been long
    solved. COBOL can CALL Crystal reports or the really superb reporting
    facility StimulSoft, or you can pick a solution from any of those found
    here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reporting_software

    Deciding between RW or SCREEN SECTION might as well include DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE...

    Pete.
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    I used to write COBOL; now I can do anything...
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